Fragile Things

The poetry is a bit weird, and on my Amazon Kindle also with mangled formatting making it even weirder. I think I'd like it more a second time, but I'd only really get into stories as they were finishing, as it's all a bit different in tone between the tales. I find Gaiman enjoyable but for some reason (the dreamlike nature?) very forgettable, so the Sherlock story at the beginning was my favourite, but the others were pleasant but I'd struggle to name them.

As with previous collections of short pieces by Gaiman, I found this extremely variable in quality: Anything referred to as "poetry" is execrable, as are all the "stories" that are extremely short and fail to follow any normal narrative structure. On the other hand, the pieces that follow some kind of conventional method are all at least OK and in some cases delightful.

Stand-out entries are A Study in Emerald and How to Talk to Girls at Parties.